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Progress Supply Ship Set To Leave Station For Ocean Disposal
Moscow (UPI) Dec 21, 2004 A Russian cargo spacecraft will be disengaged from the International Space Station Wednesday, de-orbited and sunk in the Pacific Ocean a few hours later. The spokesman of the Russian Mission Control Center Valeriy Lyndin told the Russian RIA-Novosti news agency the spacecraft Progress M-50 will be disengaged at 14:34 p.m. ET and sunk at 18:24 p.m. ET the same day. The Progress M-50 will be sunk in the Pacific Ocean, 1,800 miles to the east of Wellington, New Zealand, the Interfax news agency said. The Progress M-51 is scheduled to take off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 17:19 ET Thursday and dock on the ISS at 19:05 ET Saturday, RIA-Novosti said. The ISS crew, Russian cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov and NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao, are experiencing a lack of food on board. Their food ration has been cut in half. If for some reason the Progress M-51 with food containers does not reach the station Saturday, the crew members will be evacuated Dec. 30, Russian media reported earlier this month. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Space Station News at Space-Travel.Com
NASA Had No Choice But To Buy Soyuz Flights
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 09, 2006NASA's announcement last week that it will pay Roskosmos $43.6 million for a round-trip ride to the International Space Station this spring, and an equivalent figure for an as-yet-undetermined number of future flights to the station until 2012, represents the agency's acknowledgment that it had no alternative. |
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